Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 818 People see people's hearts (1)

   Just as Fei Qian was boosting the morale of the soldiers and preparing to march towards Yinshan Mountain, the Jingzhao Sanfu area far to the south was in complete chaos.

  When Li Jue and Guo Si came to Chang'an with soldiers and horses, the city of Chang'an was still full of turmoil, and there was no tension about the imminent war.

After Hongnong County was looted by Dong Zhuo's soldiers and horses, many fortresses along the side of the river have been broken. Many Hongnong gentry gradually migrated to the southern mountainous areas, and even crossed Wuguan to Yuzhou and Jingbei. However, even those who are still in Hongnong are cautious, and will not show up in the direction of Dahe easily, for fear of encountering military fire.

When the court in Chang'an got the news of Li Jue and Guo Si's joint attack, Li Guo's troops had already passed through Hangu Pass, but no one in the court was against Li Jue and Guo Si. The coalition forces paid more attention to it, and there were still endless debates around the topic of moving the capital every day.

Chang'an is located in Guanzhong. It was originally a small place, but now a large number of people have flooded in. After Dong Zhuo's death, no one provided a livelihood for these people who lived in no fixed place and had no food and clothing. This immediately caused many problems. Boiling, every day at Chang'an Fangkou, there are people who can't survive, inserting bids to sell heads, selling children and daughters, and there are countless people who died of freezing and starving.

The officials of the imperial court, mainly from the Shandong gentry, did not want to stay in Chang'an at all, so they opened their eyes and chose to turn a blind eye and listen to it, and there was a little unknown secret joy in their hearts. In the end, he will definitely leave Chang'an...

  Wang Yun didn't want to stay in Chang'an either, but he didn't want to move the capital east either. The reason is very simple, Er Yuan is now very powerful and has the military power in his hands. If he went to Luoyang or somewhere further to the east, wouldn't that be the situation where Dong Zhuo hadn't entered Beijing again? Wasn't it the power that Wang Yun had worked so hard to obtain? Hand it over again?

As for the big and small officials who were originally in Chang'an, they wanted to manage but didn't dare to, or they had no way to manage. They were originally under Dong Zhuo's control, and they must have some connection with Dong Zhuo. Now that Dong Zhuo has fallen, these People are afraid of being implicated, and wish they could stay at home like a tortoise every day, so how can they take risks? Besides, these people from Henan and Yi, and people from the Shandong gentry don't care. How dare these local officials in Chang'an take care of them? In extraordinary times, if a captor with ulterior motives is buckled down, the whole family will go to Fangkou for a walk? Therefore, it is better to have one thing less than one thing more.

As a result, people at the lower level saw it but dared not control it, and those at the top didn’t want to control it as if they couldn’t see it. These people who migrated were miserable. , then move to the more deserted west, or migrate to the north again...

Li Jue and Guo Si moved to Chang'an slowly and cautiously at the beginning. You must know that there are 30,000 to 40,000 troops stationed in Chang'an, and some troops who surrendered after Dong Zhuo's death are almost theirs. Two or three times, if such a force is really head-to-head, it will not have much good fruit like Li Jue and Guo Si, but looking at Chang'an's reaction, it seems to be getting weaker and weaker, except for sending an envoy at the beginning. Apart from reprimanding and ordering the two to disband on the spot, there was not much movement. This made Li Jue and Guo Si, who were worried for a while, and even doubled their scouts to inquire about the movements of Chang'an soldiers and horses, finally gasped. Take a breath.

Even Guo Bang, who has always been more cautious, expressed a tinge of optimism with the information on Chang'an movements gathered by his scouts every day, and began to imagine how to attack Chang'an City, instead of thinking about it like before. In case Chang'an soldiers and horses attack and cannot resist, how can we retreat...

Compared to Li Jue, who is more optimistic, he already feels that the court is undecided, the people in Chang'an City are panicked, and there is not much combat power. into the city of Chang'an.

For Li Jue and Guo Si, these news are all good news, and they also confirmed what Jia Xu said originally, but now that there is not much food and grass, it makes Li and Guo some headaches. Without food, grass and supplies, there is no way Enter Chang'an.

Along the way to Hongnong, the farmland along the way is basically deserted. It is impossible for Li Jue and Guo Si to conjure food and grass out of thin air. It was encircled and annihilated by the two Yuans in the north and the south, so there is not much food and grass up to now. Although Li Jue and Guo Si led mainly infantry and only a small number of horses, no matter how economical a large army is in marching and fighting, it cannot let the leading soldiers have no dry food for combat, no arrows and other consumables for the battle, and Now the morale of the army is not very stable. To make these big soldiers obedient, there is nothing else, at least food. If you really want to go to battle, you have to work hard before going out. necessities.

If Chang'an City can be defeated in one battle, it will save some things. Otherwise, it is necessary to set up a camp under Chang'an City as a defense base, but there is a lack of tents now, let alone those special-sized lumber , wood processing utensils, even the iron chains that lock the Luzhai, the big iron nails that lock the wood, etc., all kinds of things are missing.

  These things, that is, Guo Bang’s worries, are also the reasons for not wanting to attack Chang’an immediately. As for Li Jue, of course he understands, but he has no good solution.

Now along the way, the county town is deserted, not to mention the farmland in the wild. It’s okay to ask for wood and iron nails. It’s a big deal to send some people to the deserted villages and cities around to dismantle some of them. But this food and grass, It really can't be changed.

   "How about..." Li Jue suddenly thought of something, turned his head and said to Guo Bang, "...ask Wenhe for a question? What else should I pay attention to?"

   "Wenhe?" Guo Si rolled his eyes, but didn't immediately agree. For this Jia Xu, Guo Bang has always been quite repulsive, because he can't see Jia Xu clearly. Although Jia Xu said that he only wants to get through Chang'an so that he can return to his hometown with peace of mind, but Guo Bang thinks that This is probably just an excuse. I'm really not sure what Jia Xu is really thinking.

Li Jue also saw Guo Si's hesitation, and heard Guo Si say more than once that he should be wary of Jia Xu who can't see through, so he really didn't get too close to Jia Xu along the way, but right now he is almost out of food and out of pay. , how can I care about other things, not to mention that Jia Xu had a good idea before, and now it is no harm to ask him for any countermeasures, so he said: "...Why don't you ask Wenhe for an idea?"

   "..." Guo Bang was silent for a while, "...let's call him..."

   Confucius said in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period that rituals and music collapsed...

   I hope everyone can understand what he is really talking about...

   And in the Han Dynasty, another kind of "collapse of rites and music" began...

  (end of this chapter)